Support: White marble base, with plain mouldings on top and below originally on three sides, cut off on the right side and chipped off at left (w: 0.58 × h: 0.29 × d: 0.52).

Layout: Inscribed in two lines running on the whole width on the face, between the mouldings (w: 0.58 × h: 0.13 × d: 0.50).

Letters: 0.035; very slight serifs, slanting sigma, smaller omicron.

Date: Third century BC (lettering).

Findspot: Found at an unknown date before 2004 at Cyrene ➚: probably in the East Church, where it lays in the baptistery.

Place of origin: Cyrene ➚, probably East Necropolis.

Last recorded location: Seen and copied by C. Dobias-Lalou in 2004 in the East Church.

Text constituted from: Transcription from stone (CDL).

French translation

Télésandros fils de Tabalbis.

English translation

Telesandros son of Tabalbis.

Italian translation

Telesandros figlio di Tabalbis.

Commentary

This is the third occurrence of the Libyan name Tabalbis (cf. IGCyr011400²; IGCyr077100²).

Like for other funerary inscriptions found in the East Church, this one was plausibly brought there from a near part of the Necropolis, either Eastern of Southern. It has no traces of any re-cutting and was probably brought after Goodchild's excavations of 1954-1956 and therefore not mentioned in Ward-Perkins – Goodchild – Reynolds 2003.

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Fig. 1. Face of igcyr121400 Epitaph

Fig. 2. View of igcyr121400 Epitaph

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